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Tip: Using Vine for Android? You Might Want to Clear the App’s Cache

As happy as we were to see Vine finally arrive for Android, we somehow get the feeling that the developers could have easily worked on this app for another month or so before releasing it to Android. From crowded servers to app hackers taking advantage of the allowed video length settings, this app has been pretty stressed. Nevertheless, it is Vine and people will continue to use it, so we wanted to make sure you knew of another issue that seems to be plaguing frequent Viners.

If you find yourself on Vine a few times a day, then you should head over to the Settings menu on your device and look at the app’s info. Apparently, the developers forgot to add a limit to the amount of cache the app is allowed, so I found myself with almost a half gig of cached Will Sasso Vines. Because yes, that’s what everyone needs on their phone. Some users who go through more Vines than myself have reported well over a gig’s worth of cache being stored, easily adding up and taking up your device’s precious memory.

There is no fix yet, but to slap a Band Aid on the problem, you can simply clear the app’s cache through the same Settings page, resetting the app to zero. It won’t log you out or mess with your account, it will only wipe the stored Vines on your device.

Hopefully the developers will fix this issue as soon as humanly possible.

Boo, double boo to the developers of this app. This doing evrything for ios and putting android sloppy second is getting old. It should be the other way around if you go by number of users. They wait 6 months then it doesn’t have the features of the ios version. Can’t post to fb, can’t save to phone then post to social later, no front camera, and even the touch to pause works half as good. Boooo

id prob have the same but only 101mb which is still to much…but i havent had a reason to use this friggin app since i cant follow anyone and no one can follow me unless they go out there way…its so friggin stupid whats the point of this who the F uses twitter bc i def dont so bc i dont use twitter i cant use vine? so stupid everything links to contacts and facebook nw hat not yet this is only twitter so useless and i was really looking forward to this

Anon

Friggin’ Viner….that’s vat you are.

And your grammar sucks.

Ryan Jimenez

The lack of a basic search function is absurd. I am so disappointed in the app so far.

Dan

523mb. Yikes! thank you

KPunk

wow i have 1.76 GB of cache right now, thank you for the tip!

Colton

The first week I used it, my cache was up to 879MB.

Booyabobby

Yesterday there was a moment that was perfect for Vine. So when I launched the app, it took maybe 15 seconds for the “initializing” to stop and let me record. By that time, what I wanted to record was over.

Man…I was using Vine to record 6-second clips of various games at E3 like mad.

There was a few instances where Vine started acting weird, slowing down my Galaxy Nexus to a haul where I had to restart my phone to fix this weird bug.

Julien Duplant

Using a Galaxy Nexus (Verizon), I’m experiencing a boat load of bugs. Not the least of which is that I can’t use the “Connect to Address Book” feature. I’m greeted with “Sorry, we couldn’t find Vine accounts for your contacts.” Same result on my Nexus 10. Anyone having that issue? Is there a workaround?

Go Hawkeyes

I don’t even get an error message. Nothing shows up at all.

Rory Green

I need this fixed.. Galaxy Nexus and my Nexus 7 both do it and it is frustrating that I can’t find anyone to vine!

Austin Ochoa

yeah id say thats alot

Nathan D

How can you use your phone with a font like that?

kevin_gee

Its a samsung device, so thereis a feature under display settings that allows you to change fonts and what not.

Go Hawkeyes

I think Nathan D meant, how can you stand to look at that ugly ass font all day?

Simon Belmont

Dat font. It’s ugly.

But yeah, 1.3 GB is pretty bad. I got mad when I noticed Facebook was using 30 MB of cache space, so imagine my consternation at this.

Austin Ochoa

i post one pic about VINE and i get slammed for having “ugly font”…..you would think i posted a screen shot from a I-phone……..geeezz

This app is worthless. The “connect to address book” feature pulls random people, it rarely updates, and the video is not recorded like it is in the iOS version. I can understand a work in progress but for god’s sake call it “beta.”

I agree. Originally I couldn’t even pull from the contacts or twitter. It never showed me the button. Also if you’re using two factor authentication for twitter, you can’t sign in using twitter for the app. I also get random contacts and the app double posts almost every time. Even when it does post I get a failed message in my notifications even though I can see it was posted.

If you’re using a verification code (two-factor/step authentication) on Twitter, go to your Account Settings and under Account Security click on the link under “You will need to generate a temporary password to sign in to your Twitter account on other devices and apps.” You can then sign in to Twitter with this password on the Vine app.

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